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Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-11-29 | Page 1 | Poison Death Victims

Type issue
Date 1926-11-29
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
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Article Title Poison Death Victims
Type article
Date 1926-11-29
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 1
OCR Text L POISON DEATH VICTIMS l Q a. a 3 o x e ae SARAH LUNDSTEDT Prof Ao A. to La Seeley Beeley Gives Causes o of I 9 Homosexuality Theres There's a zone at the dividing line between the sexes in which are found Individuals of ot characteristics and and r reactions I re I e q ef tK th S t bp i reason eason or or another they fall fail to at attract attract attract at- at tract physically those of at the oPPosite opposite v site sex or are not attracted to them and as a consequence seek to fill their want by association with so someone of at their sex Their position being abnormal is pitiful the the same as mental deficiency is pitiful In so-called so homosexuality homosexual ity there Is not necessarily any degeneracy degeneracy degeneracy de de- to be found foun the condition is not bestial and viciousness is not necessarily a part of ot homosexual friendships The above is the substance of at comments made Monday to The Telegram by Professor Arthur L. L Beeley of the University or Utah Dr Beeley Beele declined to comment upon the case of the two girls whose bodies oodles were discovered in ih North Salt Lake Lale Sunday night making it Continued on page 7 7 Prof A. A L. L Beeley Gives Causes o oe of TT 1 e H Ie 1 Ity Continued from page 1 1 plain that his observations were gen general ral and not specific While It Is unusual it Is occasionally occasionally occa occa- sl nally found that Individuals of the same sex act toward vard each other like individuals of ot the opposite sex HAS MANY DEGREES When an individual Is not at attracted at- at tr to the opposite sex he I sometimes seeks the satisfaction of affection from his own sex What i Is loos loosely ly Im known wn as homosexuality is Js of all degrees ranging from the most wholesome sort of friendship actual love of friend for friend friend- to homos homosexuality of the physical sort It is s not extraordinary for p persons to be attracted to those th-oe ot of th their lr own sex yet not necessarily on the physical level in in th the slightest slight slight- est degree In fact the tile level Jevel of ot friendship and comradeship perhaps comprises by fa far I tho the greater part of homosexUal homosexual homosexual homo homo- sexual behavior It is the most nomal noi- noi mal thing in the world for or the in indivIdual individual individual in- in to seek seek- the satisfaction which comes from Intimate friend friend- ship The normal way bisexual ls Iff the the mutual attraction of ot those of ot opposite sex It If If for tor any number of reasons reasons perhaps perhaps simply the physical unattractiveness of one orthe or orthe I the other thIs other this relation is not ac ac- the rejected one might easily and very naturally turn toone to toone toone one of his own sex The relation In tn n this his case sometimes is nothing more more remarkable than close comradeship totally without ut physical significance cance T The le homosexual friendship often confines Itself to a c condition rUU n almost exactly r resembling the ardent lofty sentiment between sweethearts of ot opposite sex and It is conceivable that hat such attachment might result In n heartbreak and distraction quite as poignant as aR in the case of a Severance Sev- Sev erance of ual attachment
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